Amusement device



C. A. HOADLEY.

AMUSEMENT DEVICE- APPLICATION FILED MAR. 8. 1920.

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AMUSEMENT DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 8, 1920.

Patented Apr. 5, 1921.

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CHARLES AUSTIN HOADLEY, OF LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY.

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T 0 all whom'it may concern.

Beit known that I, CHARLES A. HOADLEY,

a citizen of the'United States, residing at Louisville, county of Jefferson, and State of Kentucky, havein vented' a new and useful Amusement Device, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to amusement devices of the merry-go-round or carousel type, and an object is to provide a device of the character described which will give the rider a new and unique sensation.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, the invention consists of the novel construction and arrangement of parts illus trated in the accompanying drawing, which forms a part of this specification, wherein is set forth an embodiment of the invention but it is to be understood that such changes and modifications may be resorted to as come within the scope of the appended claims.

In the drawing, wherein similar reference characters designate like parts in the several views, Figure 1, is a perspective view of an embodiment of the invention; Fig. 2, a radial section, on an enlarged scale, with parts broken away and others omitted; Fig 3, a top plan view; Fig. 4:, a bottom plan vlew of a portion of the bottom; Fig. 5, a sectional detail, on an enlarged scale.

The embodiment of the invention illustrated herewith comprises a central supporting structure, or tower -10 this may be of any suitable construction, as shown it is formed of structural iron. The tower supports a rotatable structure comprising a cap 11 connected with the structure by means of a king bolt 12. A plurality of brackets 13 radiating from the lower edge of the cap carries a large annular gear -14. by means of which the structure is driven. A shaft 15- journaled in brackets 16- extended from a side of the towe; is provided on its upper end with a pinion 17-- enmeshed with the annular gear and at its lower end is operatively connected with suitable driving means such as an electric motor -18. A plurality of spokes or rods 19 are secured by their inner ends in, or to, the brackets 13, and by their outer ends to a ring -20. plurality of shafts 21 alternate w1t h the spokes and are journaled respectively in the ,cap 11- and in the ring 20. These shafts are provided near their inner ends with -miter gears -22 which engage with a large miter gear 23securedto the tower. The shafts are run "through tubes which serve as spacing members, the ends 7 Specification of Letters Patent. .Patentd'API w5, 1921. i 'Application filed Marcus, 1920. sriainaseaoso. V i l i bearing respectively against thei'nside of the ring and against the hub-of the miter gears.

at its lower end to a-polygonal shaped member -26-, the sides 27+ of which are At the outer end of each spoke is I I a depending rod 25 which is connected chords of the circle described by the ring I 20, the rods being connected-thereto at the angles thereof between contiguous ends of sector shaped sections -28 of floor'which are pivotally mounted by means of bearings 29-. upon the sides 27 On the outer end of each of the shafts 21, is a crank .--30-, and a rod 31- connected therewith which depends to a connection at -82 with a corresponding section of floor,

the connection being on the'outer edge thereof. Seats 38-- are arranged transversely of the floor sections. A guy rod -34. extends from a connection with the spokes, and each of the shafts, in proximity to the ring 20, to a connection with a mast, -35- and serves to brace and support the rotae table structure. In operation the motor drives the structure. As the structure turns, the miter gears on the shafts 21, being engaged with the large gear 23, causes the shafts to rotate and through the medium of the cranks and rods, impart a rocking motion 'to the floor sections and seats there-v upon. It will be observed that passengers occupying the seats when the device is in motion, will'move forward in a circle and at the same time be submitted to a lateral, or sidewise rocking or swaying motion which will be productive of very pleasurable emoa depending structure rotatably mounted thereon, means for rotating said structure,

floor sections carried by the structure and forming a continuous floor and means for rocking said sectionsindependently, and latrotatable structure, miter gears on said shafts enmeshed with said large gear, floor seotionsfcarried by the rotatable structure forming a. continuous floor and operative connections between said shafts and correspondlng floor sectlons whereby an independent lateral rocking motion is imparted to the floor sections.

4. In a device as characterized, a tower, a wheel like structure mounted thereon and adapted to be rotated in a horizontal plane,

rods depending from the rim of said strucv ture, shafts connected to the lowetends'ofQ said rods, said shafts forming chords of a circle, floor sections seated on the shafts longitudinally thereof,imeans for rotating the I structure and means operable by said rota-- tion forv rocking said floor sections.

CHARLES AUSTIN 'HOADLEY. 

